Unclassified road crash in Bath and North East Somerset BA1 on 12 July 1987 at 20:20 involving a car
A car hit a pedestrian on an unclassified road in Bath and North East Somerset at 20:20 on Sunday 12 July 1987. A 7-year-old male pedestrian was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 12 Jul 1987
- Sunday, 20:20
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.38563, longitude -2.36768, in the BA1 postcode district and within the built-up area of Bath.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 198752EB00845
- Council area
- Bath and North East Somerset
- Police force
- Avon and Somerset
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
Junction information
- Junction type
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Daylight
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 14 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 17 April 2001.
Slight
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Slight
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Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 20 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightMale, aged 7, hit by vehicle 1 (Car)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, crossing elsewhere
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from nearside, masked by parked or stationary vehicle
Data source
This record comes from the Department for Transport’s road safety data (STATS19), in which police forces in Great Britain record every road crash reported to them where someone was injured. It is reference 198752EB00845 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Bath and North East Somerset road accident statistics for 1987.